Society for California Archaeology 2010 Annual Meeting

88 Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting 2010
• Symposium 9 (De Anza North); Friday, 3:45 PM
Archaeological surveys in the Bircham Uplands have identified hundreds of petroglyph panels
containing thousands of individual elements. Although the survey area lies just outside the Coso
Rock Art Landmark, typical Coso-style elements are relatively rare. This paper examines the
striking variability evident among sheep motifs, focusing on attributes of form and production
that appear unique to the rock art record of the Bircham area.
LOPEZ, Escee
California State University Fullerton
Field School Experiences in Palos Verdes Peninsula, California and Los Padres National
Forest in Santa Barbara, California
• Symposium 10 (La Sierra); Friday, 1:30 PM
For the Society for California Archaeology (SCA) meeting, I will discuss my field school
experience in Abalone Cove of Palos Verdes Peninsula, California during the fall semester of
2009 under the supervision of Dr. Steven James, professor of Anthropology in California State
University Fullerton. In addition, I will be summarizing my month long stay at Los Padres
National Forest, Santa Barbara under Dr. Jerry Moore of California State University Dominguez
Hills during the summer of 2009. These experiences have broadened my understanding and
competence in investigative analysis, excavation, and research. Accompanying these skills, I
created relationships with newly discovered colleagues as well as notable members within the
scientific community. It is my desire to share my personal experiences in hopes to provide
inspiration and promotion of archaeological discipline to future colleagues.
MACK, Joanne
University of Notre Dame
Given Site Ceramics: Use of Siskiyou Utility Ware for Testing Various Analytic Techniques
• General Session 2 (De Anza South); Friday, 11:15 AM
This study intends to compare the results of four different analytic techniques to determine which
technique best identifies the clay sources used in making Siskiyou Utility Ware at the Given Site.
The first technique tested, Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE), shows some promise in
determining clay sources. Soil samples, clay pit-linings, and pot sherds were originally collected
during excavation of the site in the 1990s, and additional soil samples were collected at four
different locations during 2009 to better sample the surrounding environment of the Given Site.
MADRIGAL, Anthony
Cahuilla
A Tribal View of Curation
• Plenary Session (Ben H. Lewis Hall South); Thursday, 9:30 AM
California Indians believe that they are charged with an obligation of stewardship and possess a
right of control over their cultural patrimony. They see a fundamental difference between the
way museums/archaeologists and Native Americans view cultural resources. I will discuss some
of these differences as regards curation. For California Indians, manmade artifacts, landscapes,
ceremonial areas, habitation sites, trails, food processing and gathering areas have a great
spiritual significance because they are in areas sanctified by those that once used these sites and
the adjacent plant and animal habitats. Indian people believe that the people from whose lands